- Fiction, Scandals, South America in fiction, Scandals in fiction
Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello.
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Mal Peet
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, AudioGo, Walker Books
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781406367737
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